Promoting collaborative research on ideas central to the pressing issues of our time.

Faculty Scholars in Residence

This program, jointly sponsored with the College of the Liberal Arts and the commonwealth campuses, provides up to eight faculty members per year with one semester of release time from teaching, and a $1,000 mini-grant for research expenses and/or materials.

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Latina/o Migrants in Deindustrializing Pennsylvania: An Origin Story for Political Xenophobia in America?
C. Libby
Engendering Feeling: Religious Affects, Transphobia, and Historicity
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Courageous Revolt’: The Life and Educational Activism of Anna Julia Cooper
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The Sword Outside, the Plague Within: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Europe
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Queer Trails through Rachel Carson’s Letters
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Empire’s Orphans, Nation’s Stepchildren: Jews and Others in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa
Christopher Moore
The Thinkery: The Making of Intellectuals in the Age of Socrates
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Cartography and the Construction of Indigeneity: The farm, the Khoe, and the Bantu in South African Literary Landscapes